Nov. 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1783, in Paris, Jean de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first free-flight ascent in a balloon. In 1877, Thomas Edison announced his invention ...

Before her death at age 83 in 1971, she found fame as a survivor of the sinkings of the HMHS Britannic and her sister ship the RMS Titanic. As first class maid, one of only 10, she was one of the ...